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Today's featured coast is Cornwall

The coastline of Cornwall is amongst the most dramatic in the UK, with tall rock cliffs, bays and sandy beaches. A favourite tourist destination with surfing towns such as Newquay, and famous attractions such as the Eden Project.. Find out more, visit Cornwall.

We have visitor information and photographs for the main coastal towns and resorts in Cornwall, including Polperro, St Austell, Newquay, and details of beaches, visitor attractions such as Lost Gardens of Heligan, visitor accommodation, B&B's, hotels, guest houses and restaurants.

Featured coastline

The Goodwin Sands are a notorious stretch of sands just off the coast of Kent. Submerged at high tides, with areas being exposed and drying sufficiently for a man to walk on at low tides, they present a particular challenge to shipping given their location at the narrowest part of the busiest shipping channel in the world [...] Read more.

The East Coast Martello towers were built in Essex and Suffolk around the same time as the South Coast towers starting in 1809. They were intended to prevent Napoleon's armies from reaching London via Essex/Suffolk [...] Read more.

Martello Towers were built along the coast of Kent and East Sussex, between 1805 and 1808 to protect against invasion by Napoleon. A good number of them survive today, some restored as museums and residences [...] Read more.